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I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments
I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments Downvotes are disabled for any comment more than 24 hours old, but upvotes are still allowed after more than a day. Emphasize the positive.
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I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments
I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments Downvotes are disabled for any comment more than 24 hours old, but upvotes are still allowed after more than a day. Emphasize the positive.
Very good proposal. There are more unicode symbols to choice from: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/geometric_shapes.html Down arrow/triangle: ▼ It is not only matter of resolution but I personally like bigger fonts and have zoomed in HN so triangles look bad: http://i.imgur.com/fpA7N.png
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The image is only loaded once and does not block anything (in fact it's loaded in parallel with — and the same size as — the orange Y logo at the top-left, and the tracking gif). Furthermore the images on YC have extremely low dynamicity and size, so there's little chance they'll be evicted from the browser's cache (short of a manual cache clear), so their 100 bytes will only be loaded once the first time ever you vi…
The image is only downloaded once, but each page you load re-requests it. If your account has enough karma to downvote posts, you're requesting two array gifs per page view. There's no Expires header being set, so your browser is not caching these images. A full roundtrip to the HN server to get back the "content hasn't changed" status code (304) is required for each.
Very good proposal. There are more unicode symbols to choice from: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/geometric_shapes.html Down arrow/triangle: ▼ It is not only matter of resolution but I personally like bigger fonts and have zoomed in HN so triangles look bad: http://i.imgur.com/fpA7N.png
How does simple zooming produce that horribly mangled graphic on the left of that screenshot? That seems like a deficiency in your browser.
How does on estimate the probability for a unicode character ▲ to be included in a majority of fonts? Is the triangle available on all devices?
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There are a few Chrome plugins to improve the readability of HN. I personally use Georgify: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...
+1000 for Georgify chrome plugin!
Also, the margins are way too big for my taste. I feel like 1/2 of the screen is unused white space. Is there any way to tweak it?
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How does simple zooming produce that horribly mangled graphic on the left of that screenshot? That seems like a deficiency in your browser.
It's because the GIF arrow is anti-aliased. You always want to anti-alias after sizing, lest it look like that, but you can't do that in a bitmapped image.
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I also zoom in to 125%, not sure if it's just me, but for a textual site the default font size seems too small. Maybe my eyes are just giving up. Out of curiosity, I was wondering why the triangle wasn't a CSS triangle.. wouldn't that be more efficient than a gif?
The GIF is 111 bytes. A CSS triangle might be smaller, but it's probably not much of a win.